Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is tied for last place in a new poll ranking possible Republican and Democratic contenders for the White House in 2016. One percent of respondents to the McClatchy-Marist poll released Wednesday said they would vote for the Baton Rouge native out of the entire GOP pack, with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in the lead.

The poll split up the presidential field in two and asked respondents to choose their top candidate based on party affiliation. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton topped the Democratic pool by a wide margin, besting Vice President Joe Biden by 50 points.

Christie topped the Republican pool with 15 percent. Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio rounded out the top three with 13 and 12 percent respectively. But it was the large margin of undecided Republican voters, at 25 percent, which again highlighted the lack of a strong frontrunner in the GOP camp.

"None of the potential Republican candidates who appeal to the more activist base of the party have broken free of the pack," said Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, in a press release accompanying the poll.

Of the 11 Republican possibilities in the poll, Jindal was last, tied with New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez. The governor has not directly indicated his intention to run for president, telling Fox & Friends in February anyone considering a run now should "get their head examined."

While a press release accompanying the SMOR poll said the dip in approval ratings was based on cuts made in recent years by the Jindal administration to health care and higher education, as well as his continued plans to privatize the state's charity hospital system, Miringoff said Wednesday's poll numbers are more driven by a crowded Republican pool.

"This (race) is going to be characterized...by a very, very prominent field. So although (Jindal)'s trailing, the differences between the bottom and the top are not enormous," Miringoff said after the poll was released Wednesday.

He added that possible candidates like Christie and Ryan also have stronger name recognition than the governor, even as Jindal sits as the current head of the Republican Governors Association.

"Given it's a crowded field there's only so many slices of the pie they can take," said Miringoff, adding that although the numbers are "interesting broad strokes," they will change "very significantly" in the coming years.

The McClatchy-Marist survey polled 1,204 adults by telephone between July 15 and 18, 2013. Landline and cell phone contact numbers were both called and then the two samples were "combined and balanced" to reflect the most recent Census results for age, gender, income, race, and region.

The margin of error for the entire sample was ±3.1 percent; the margin for Republican data stood at ±5.2 percent and for Democratic data at ±4.7 percent. See the full breakdown of the data below.